The Youth Are Precious
The number of children killed by bombs from Israeli planes is far larger than the number of civilians killed by Hamas. Young Americans protest in universities because they say a “genocide” is being committed by Israel. If this is correct, their protest is more than noble and ought to be the protest of everybody. More than 34,500 Palestinian civilians have been killed since October 7.
Younger people have a bold idealism that older people tend to lose with age. They’re precious in that way. On the other hand, let’s note that the students who are attending top universities are not the C, D, and F students, but the A students. It is much harder now to gain acceptance into a university than it was forty years ago, for example. To be accepted today into a University of California campus, a student needs a 4.0 GPA or more. He needs a 4.5 for UCLA, and it’s also harder to be accepted by UC San Diego and UC Berkley. In the California State system, a 4.0 gets you into the waiting list at San Louis Obispo. For acceptance into San Diego State (SDSU) today, the minimum is a 3.7 GPA. It used to be that a student could get into SDSU with a 2.5 (Cs and Bs). These university protesters are the crème of the crème, actually. If they decide to protest as a group and call such a killing of civilians “genocide,” they should not be called “Hitler Youth” or compared with Hitler by older people.
Mark Levine calls them Hitler Youth on television and in his radio show. He said on the radio that President Trump is the “least self-aggrandizing politician” in America, while praising his condemnation of the protests (I turned off the radio after that). Other so-called conservative radio shows als
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